80s & 90s forgotten classics.

[stewarty27]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t4-zDem1Sk

This IMHO was the best song to come out of the 80s. Music sometimes makes me cry and this one certainly did.

[Shetland Don]

I remember Harvie from school. Bit of an oddball but you can’t say he doesn’t have principles, whether you agree with him or not

Michael Gove too was apparently a bit of a Geek/oddball at Robert Gordons school in Aberdeen … I suspect many Politicians fall into a not dissimilar category! But boy can he boogie!😂

[Shetland Don]

You're a bit of a weirdo, probably something to do with being a west coaster.

The whole idea is that folk have to earn what they have, not sit in your "I canna manage" Scotland, waiting for someone else to pay for everything.

When you think of Mason's Scotland just think of a minker with his hand permanently out.

Yes, I agree - that’s also how the Scots are often perceived in England, largely I believe due to the SNP and specifically Sturgeon. With seemingly everyone in the Public Sector going on strike too in the UK I really don’t know where we are headed as a Country with the enormous debt increasing exponentially. Sturgeon f**** up everything she touches including education and is incessantly on about free this, free that, without any thought to who has to pay for it. God forbid if we go independent as that’ll be Scotland f***** too I fear.

Sturgeon is a complete power-hungry megalomaniac who I utterly despise.

[donsdaft]

Not a popular viewpoint on here I'm afraid.

Well meaning policies most often don't work because of greed ( and this time not the greed of the rich)

Free medical prescriptions are a case in point.

Now apparently, folk can just walk into a pharmacy and receive whatever they want, free of charge.
At least that's what they think.
This is turning our pharmacies into a bit of a battle ground with folk demanding stuff they're not entitled to, or the chemist doesn't have in stock, and going mental when they're told they can't have it.

Paracetamol, at 35p in the shops can be had "free" at a cost of £7.30* by the time it's processed through the NHS.

Utter madness of course, but try getting a politician of say it's a good idea to bring back charging for prescriptions.

Before Mason goes apoplectic at this "national socialist" point of view, I can say that I'm fully in favour of subsidised and free prescriptions but when an experiment fails it's a good idea to admit it .



* I can't remember the actual figure, but this is close.

[donsdaft]

Michael Gove too was apparently a bit of a Geek/oddball at Robert Gordons school in Aberdeen

How would they have been able to tell?

[Donanddusted]

Yes, I agree - that’s also how the Scots are often perceived in England, largely I believe due to the SNP and specifically Sturgeon.
Sturgeon f**** up everything she touches including education and is incessantly on about free this, free that, without any thought to who has to pay for it.
God forbid if we go independent as that’ll be Scotland f***** too I fear.

Fantastic bit of conflation there.


"Sturgeon is a complete power-hungry megalomaniac who I utterly despise."

That I get.

[stewarty27]

Not a popular viewpoint on here I'm afraid.

Well meaning policies most often don't work because of greed ( and this time not the greed of the rich)

Free medical prescriptions are a case in point.

Now apparently, folk can just walk into a pharmacy and receive whatever they want, free of charge.
At least that's what they think.
This is turning our pharmacies into a bit of a battle ground with folk demanding stuff they're not entitled to, or the chemist doesn't have in stock, and going mental when they're told they can't have it.

Paracetamol, at 35p in the shops can be had "free" at a cost of £7.30* by the time it's processed through the NHS.

Utter madness of course, but try getting a politician of say it's a good idea to bring back charging for prescriptions.

Before Mason goes apoplectic at this "national socialist" point of view, I can say that I'm fully in favour of subsidised and free prescriptions but when an experiment fails it's a good idea to admit it .



* I can't remember the actual figure, but this is close.

You need to listen to yourself DD ! you are beginning to sound like a Daily Mail fanatic. "Scroungers" this n that. Scapegoating I believe it's called. ‘the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members’. Said Gandhi or was it Jefferson. Any way this is a thread for music is it not ?

[mondo_notion]

This is turning our pharmacies into a bit of a battle ground with folk demanding stuff they're not entitled to, or the chemist doesn't have in stock, and going mental when they're told they can't have it.

Is that fact, gossip or just your opinion?

Sounds like bullsh*t to me.

[donsdaft]

I'm afraid it's information given to me by pharmacists.

[donsdaft]

You need to listen to yourself DD ! you are beginning to sound like a Daily Mail fanatic. "Scroungers" this n that. Scapegoating I believe it's called. ‘the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members’. Said Gandhi or was it Jefferson. Any way this is a thread for music is it not ?

Let's assume we all want to help societies's most vulnerable members.
The argument is how that's best done.
One of the first things that needs to be taken into account is how we afford to.